What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Warning in Post #8023**

An absolutely wild idea is treating Iran like a trading partner, on an equal footing. Not a colony that the west has to extract all the resources from without the people getting an improvement in living standards.

Maybe if the west wasn't trying to shift them at every turn for the last 70 years, they wouldn't be against us in return. If we (the West) were happy for them to sell the oil with the profits going to Iran rather than our iol companies, the whole middle east could be very different. I haven't seen much profit from the western oil Companies, have any of you?

There's another scenario where we bought oil from the middle east, it became wealthy because it has something we want to buy (probably wealthier than us) and they were pretty happy with the situation and didn't want to disrupt it much.

Yes, I get that. We can afford our current lifestyle because oil is at the current price. If it were cheaper things would be better and if it were more expensive things would be harder.

But You avoided the point. Why am I supposed to care if the profits go to the western oil Companies or just stay with Iran?

More to the point, why am I supposed to support the western oil companies profiting instead of Iran? It's fine if you haven't thought about it before.

I think we're pretry hostile towards them and they're hostile towards us. We've attacked and invaded them plenty of times. Not sure when was the last time they invaded us... they supply arms to groups opposed to us, we supply arms to groups opposed to them. I don’t think we can make an argument were the good guys.

I thinknit comes down to the same fundamental point that most conflicts do, we want their stuff and we don't want to pay them for it.

I don't think that's necessarily the case. It's more that we want to control their government so they sell the oil to our oil companies rather than selling the oil themselves and keeping the profits. Killing their people is just a means to the end of getting control of their governments.

I don't put any store in arguments about democracy or human rights. We're sound with Saudi Arabia and they don't have democracy or strong human rights. Let's agree not to pretend it's anything to do with democracy or human rights.

We Want our oil companies to get the profits, not the countries who own the oil. I'm pretty sure we're bad guys when the history of the period is told. Not the only bad guys, but definitely bad guys.

I think the idea of treating Iran like an equal trading partner, who has something we want to buy, is unthinkable to most people because of the propaganda

A huge factor in certain countries disliking the West in the middle east is military interventions that have often ended up to the detriment of the population.

I don't want them in charge of our oil supply, we will be dead without oil, it's not just the nice things, it's also heating, food and medicine who depend on oil and gas. So I don't really care what it takes as long as it's being done. And that's your opinion too, you are just too terrified to admit it.

But its not really our oil, its their oil we use. Now more than ever we should be investing more into renewables, so the need to rely so heavily on something countries are willing to go to war over is less and less.

The main person who has endangered global oil supplies is an orange who has pursued an awfully planned war. Looking back, under Obama there was a far more stable relationship developing with Iran. Now Trump is attempting to reintroduce the deal he tore up in term one.

Actually the orange clown just made it clear for everyone to see that the world's oil supply is being controlled by islamist savages and fekin pirates. This needs to change asap.

Well as I've said, as long as we have what we need I don't care who's right - take this as my controversial opinion of the day.

The ultimate "I'm alright Jack".

I think it is about time that Meath is fully annexed into Dublin. Call it “the Dublin plains county council”. Anyone who wishes to remain in this new greater Dublin will be considered honorary Dubs. Anyone who refuse to do so will be forced into the building trade thus alleviating Dublin’s housing problem.

Nope, it's not us the west who kept them from developing. Even when we took stuff from them, we left them better than we found them, and in some cases that was actually kind of bad, we gave them longer lives with our medicine and now they starve because they are now too many and still incapable of doing modern agriculture. But that's not our fault.